[Right Wing Professor]

Is it possible that a person may have his name used in a paper because his intellectual property was used?

From the Science instructions to authors:

By submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author accepts the responsibility that all authors have agreed to be so listed and have seen and approved the manuscript, its content, and its submission to Science. Any changes in authorship must be approved in writing by all the original authors.

You don't co-author a paper whose conclusions you disagree with. That's fraud. If you use someone's computer program, you cite the program in the reference section, and maybe thank the author if it's not generally available.

My own professional society, ACS, has published a quite detailed statement of ethical principles, at: http://pubs.acs.org/instruct/ethic2000.pdf

Quoting The co-authors of a paper should be all those persons who have made significant scientific contributions to the work reported and who share responsibility and accountability for the results. Other contributions should be indicated in a footnote or an “Acknowledgments” section.

[DittoJed2]

Fraud is a strong word. People co-author books and works all the time and may concentrate on their portion of the paper. When all the editing is done, the person will get credit for their portion of the paper, but someone else may have written the millions of years part. Considering the level of visibility Baumgartner has had as a creationist, I sincerely doubt that he wrote the portion about the millions of years. Maybe a little sloppy in the final publication, but fraudulent is a bit harsh and would have to be proved.